All Free events Dec 5–7

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GOOD December
Friday Dec 5 @ GOOD Space More times »
Free
Everyone wants to be a better person, but no one wants to forgo art, music, or great food in the process. That's where GOOD magazine... View details »
GOOD December
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Dewar's Repeal Day Parties
Friday Dec 5 @ Various
Free
Dust off those fedoras: it's the 75th anniversary of Prohibition's repeal, and LA is wetter than ever. The folks at Dewar's never tire of promoting... View details »
Dewar's Repeal Day Parties
Art
Nomad
Saturday Dec 6 (6–9pm) @ Found Gallery More times »
Free
Nomad is a visual and creative opportunist: the multimedia artist wanders the globe making art that not only responds to the locales in which he... View details »
Nomad
Art
At the Brewery Project
Saturday Dec 6 (7–9pm) @ Armory Center for the Arts More times »
Free
With At the Brewery Project: 1993-2007: the Finale, the Armory pays its respects to an LA art mainstay. For the past 15 years, Edison Electric... View details »
At the Brewery Project

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Art
All of This is Melting Away
Friday Dec 5 (8am–6pm) @ Royal/T More times »
Free
Director of New York's Greene Naftali Gallery, Jay Sanders steps into cafe/shop/gallery Royal/T to curate this group show of works from prominent collector Susan Hancock's... View details »
All of This is Melting Away
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Linda Besemer
Friday Dec 5 (10am–6pm) @ Angles Gallery More times »
Free
Linda Besemer produces the kind of art that provokes people to solve the mystery of how she does it. Without divulging trade secrets, it has... View details »
Linda Besemer
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Mark Bradford
Friday Dec 5 @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery More times »
Free
Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious galleries and museums, but... View details »
Mark Bradford
Art: Photography
In Focus: The Landscape
Friday Dec 5 (10am–9pm) @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
Art's love affair with landscapes was captured with brush strokes until technology gave way to the click of the shutter. In Focus: The Landscape explores... View details »
In Focus: The Landscape
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Cindy Wright
Friday Dec 5 (10am–6pm) @ Mark Moore Gallery More times »
Free
Influenced by Dutch vanitas of the 16th and 17th centuries, Belgian artist Cindy Wright creates excruciatingly detailed, large-scale portraits and still-lifes of human skin, fat,... View details »
Cindy Wright
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Plush
Friday Dec 5 (10am–6pm) @ Eagle Rock Center for the Arts More times »
Free
Eagle Rock Center for the Arts' new group show, Plush, uses sculpture, video, and drawing to explore the excesses of the economic bubble and the... View details »
Plush
Art
Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde
Friday Dec 5 (10am–5:30pm) @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
In Tango with Cows, the Getty Research Institute presents a concentrated display of unabridged books published in Russia between 1910 and 1917. Products of the... View details »
Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde
Art: Photography
William Hundley
Friday Dec 5 (10am–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery More times »
Free
Austin-based photographer William Hundley's work intervenes in reality, harnessing his inner trickster with the yoke of labor-intensive production. His staged and manipulated street scenes generate... View details »
William Hundley
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Hans Burkhardt
Friday Dec 5 (10am–6pm) @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts More times »
Free
In the years bracketing WWII, a great many artists were among those fleeing to US shores from the specter of Nazi Germany. In fine-art terms... View details »
Hans Burkhardt
Art
Mark Dean Veca
Friday Dec 5 (10am–5pm) @ Otis College of Art and Design More times »
Free
Entering Mark Dean Veca's site-specific installation at Otis College's Ben Maltz Gallery is like stepping into a psychedelic playhouse filled with surreal pop-cultural cartoons. A... View details »
Mark Dean Veca
Art: Architecture/Design
Eddy Sykes
Friday Dec 5 @ Materials & Applications More times »
Free
First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials & Applications' latest installation are... View details »
Eddy Sykes
Art
Gordy Grundy
Friday Dec 5 @ Western Project More times »
Free
The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website for a 21-week series... View details »
Gordy Grundy
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Hernan Bas
Friday Dec 5 (10am–6pm) @ Sandroni Rey More times »
Free
Fascinated by homo-eroticism and inspired by mythology and classic fiction, Miami painter Hernan Bas' tableaux present an enchanted world of roaming teenage dandies, where spritely... View details »
Hernan Bas
Art
In It Together
Friday Dec 5 @ Tinlark Gallery More times »
Free
In It Together is the meta-title for a pair of simultaneous collaborative exhibitions: Matthew Rodriguez and Nicholas Bohac's Drill, Baby, Drill! and Saelee Oh and... View details »
In It Together
Art: Photography
Michael Kenna and Pam Posey
Friday Dec 5 (10am–5:30pm) @ Craig Krull Gallery More times »
Free
Photographer Michael Kenna is a technical whiz, a classicist with a flair for the dramatic. His sweeping black-and-white landscapes depict vistas as diverse as the... View details »
Michael Kenna and Pam Posey
Art
Enrique Martínez Celaya
Friday Dec 5 (10am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery More times »
Free
Cuban-born artist Enrique Martinez Celaya's oil-and-wax paintings and mixed-media sculptures offer a rare combination of vigorous, pre-Raphaelite style and pensive, academic deliberation. Though depicting a... View details »
Enrique Martínez Celaya
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Wolfgang Tillmans
Friday Dec 5 (10am–6pm) @ Regen Projects More times »
Free
Wolfgang Tillmans is like the Madonna of the art world: never afraid to change directions, reinvent himself, or throw in a surprise or two to... View details »
Wolfgang Tillmans
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Sasha Bezzubov & Jessica Sucher
Friday Dec 5 (11am–5:30pm) @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery More times »
Free
In the '60s and '70s, the Beatles led an exuberant parade East, inspiring throngs of Westerners to follow in a search of enlightenment. Though India... View details »
Sasha Bezzubov & Jessica Sucher
Art
Jennifer Vanderpool
Friday Dec 5 (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art More times »
Free
Overtaking every nook and cranny of Bandini Art's box space — including the ceiling — Jennifer Vanderpool's recent, large-scale installation features a garden of manufactured... View details »
Jennifer Vanderpool
Art: Photography
War as a Way of Life
Friday Dec 5 (11am–5:30pm) @ 18th Street Arts Center More times »
Free
18th Street wraps up its yearlong, four-part examination of sociopolitical issues with War as a Way of Life. The exhibit includes the work of 16... View details »
War as a Way of Life
Art
George Stoll
Friday Dec 5 (11am–6pm) @ Lightbox Gallery More times »
Free
In sacred and profane, Los Angeles-based artist George Stoll expands upon his traditional examination of everyday Americana. Objects such as his well-known "Tupperware" pieces of... View details »
George Stoll
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Ed Templeton and Matt Leines
Friday Dec 5 (11am–6pm) @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery More times »
Free
In this pairing of one-man exhibitions, Roberts + Tilton's new Culver City digs unleashes an ocean of dense artistic detail. Matt Leines' ambitious murals are... View details »
Ed Templeton and Matt Leines
Art
Holly Coulis
Friday Dec 5 (11am–6pm) @ Cherry and Martin More times »
Free
Whatever outfit they sport, leisurely activity they pursue, or unearthly landscape they inhabit, Coulis' men are never revealed as themselves (and neither are the women... View details »
Holly Coulis
Art
Mear One
Friday Dec 5 (noon–6pm) @ 01 Gallery More times »
Free
Very few painters can swing the brush with the technical wizardry of LA native Mear One. Returning to the... ce where he got his start... View details »
Mear One
Art
Which Way Berlin - L.A.?
Friday Dec 5 (noon–6pm) @ Pharmaka More times »
Free
Berlin has always been notorious for cultivating the avant garde, but its conceptual art scene has flourished since the fall of the wall. This show... View details »
Which Way Berlin - L.A.?
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Antonio Pineda
Friday Dec 5 (noon–5pm) @ Fowler Museum, UCLA More times »
Free
World-renowned Mexican silversmith Antonio Pineda brings more than 200 of his masterpieces up the coast to UCLA's Fowler Museum, to show what an especially talented... View details »
Antonio Pineda
Art
Human Resources
Friday Dec 5 (noon–6pm) @ The Company More times »
Free
The economy be damned: amid a spate of gallery closings, it's still full speed ahead for the fearless founders of the Company, Annie Wharton and... View details »
Human Resources
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Soup Kitchen Cocktail Hour
Friday Dec 5 (5–7pm) @ The Edison More times »
Free
Every Friday, the Edison Lounge transforms itself into a soup kitchen to, in their words, "maintain perspective through this financial crisis and to support those... View details »
Soup Kitchen Cocktail Hour
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Ugo Wine Bar
Friday Dec 5 (5:30pm–1:30am) @ Vinum Populi More times »
Free
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one... View details »
Ugo Wine Bar
Art
CUT: Makings of Removal
Saturday Dec 6 (noon–4pm) @ Vincent Price Art Museum More times »
Free
The 17 young and emerging artists included in this ambitious group show follow diverse strategies in making work, but the organizing principle is one of... View details »
CUT: Makings of Removal
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Art, Craft & Vintage Flea Market
Saturday Dec 6 @ Citibank Parking Lot (corner of Silverlake Blvd) More times »
Free
East Side shoppers seeking the offbeat need not despair this holiday season, for the gals at Ghettogloss have heard their flea-market pleas. Every weekend through... View details »
Art, Craft & Vintage Flea Market
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James Turrell
Sunday Dec 7 (10am–8pm) @ Draper Courtyard, Pomona College More times »
Free
It's up for debate whether James Turrell is a sculptor, an architect, a light-and-space artist, or an earth-works artist. Whichever he is, the transcendent, full-body... View details »
James Turrell